Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Former Texas detective suspected in shooting apprehended, local media reports
(Refiling to remove extraneous advisory content from byline field; adds background) (Reuters) - Texas authorities on Monday apprehended a former sheriff's detective suspected of fatally shooting three...
Apr 19, 2021
Analysis-Guatemala defies Washington, pushing anti-graft judge from top court
By Frank Jack Daniel, Laura Gottesdiener and Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala has set a collision course with Washington over the removal of the most prominent graft-fighting judge fr...
Apr 19, 2021
FDA tells Emergent plant behind botched COVID-19 vaccines to stop manufacturing
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked Emergent BioSolutions Inc to stop manufacturing new drug material at its plant in Baltimore, which was responsible for millions of ruined CO...
Apr 19, 2021
NASA’s Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft ov...
Apr 19, 2021
Doctors say clot treatment advice key to U.S. resuming J&J COVID vaccines
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Resuming the use of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine in the United States will require clear guidelines for the medical community on how to best treat patients that de...
Apr 19, 2021
J&J, other drugmakers to face trial in California over claims they fueled opioid epidemic
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - Four drugmakers are set to face trial on Monday in a lawsuit by several large counties in California that are seeking more than $50 billion over claims the companies helped...
Apr 19, 2021
Arizona mining fight pits economy, EVs against conservation, culture
By Ernest Scheyder SUPERIOR, Ariz. (Reuters) - Early last year, Darrin Lewis paid $800,000 for a hardware store in a tiny Arizona town where mining giant Rio Tinto Plc hopes to build one of the world'...
Apr 19, 2021
Both sides to make closing arguments in Derek Chauvin murder trial
By Jonathan Allen MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Jurors will hear closing arguments on Monday before they begin deliberating on whether the way former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of...
Apr 19, 2021
Five people injured at a shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana: KSLA
(Reuters) - Five people arrived at a local hospital after they were shot in Shreveport, Louisiana, KSLA, a CBS-affiliated television station, reported late Sunday. Twenty one units of police were on s...
Apr 18, 2021
U.S. administers 209.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 209,406,814 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Sunday morning and distributed 264,505,725 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
Apr 18, 2021
